Saturday, October 4, 2014

Mwanamke mwenye WAUME 4 auawa kwa mawe

A SOMALI woman has been stoned to
death in an Islamist al-Shabab-controlled part of the country for
secretly marrying several husbands, officials and witnesses say.

Witnesses said on Saturday the woman was buried up to her neck and
pelted with rocks and stones by hooded men in front of a large crowd in
the southern coastal district of Barawe.

“The woman married four
husbands and confessed to the crime. I questioned her several times
while she was in prison and she told me she was mentally fit. All the
four husbands were questioned and they have confirmed that they had
married her,” Islamic court judge Sheik Mohamud Abu Abdullah told the
gathering.

The woman, 33-year-old Safiyo Ahmed Jumale, was executed on Friday in front of dozens of onlookers.

“The
woman was brought with her eyes covered and she was buried up to her
neck before she was stoned to death by hooded men,” said Ali Yare, a
resident who witnessed the execution.

Somalia’s Al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Shabab control large swathes of
territory in the south and centre of the war-torn country, where they
impose a strict interpretation of Islamic law.